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Takuro Kishimoto

The Diet is making efforts to boost its appeal as a Tokyo tourist attraction, and members of the administrative staff who come up with good ideas have been pitching in and acting as tour guides. Last December, the secretariat in charge of the building ...

Frustrated with widespread political apathy among their peers, some university students are thinking creatively about how to get the younger generation more interested in politics. Less than 38 percent of people in their 20s voted in the 2012 Lower Hours election, according to the ...

“Sento” in Tokyo that try to stand out are drawing new customers even as the popularity of communal bathhouses continues to decline from the days when most Japanese homes lacked baths. Shimizu-Yu in Minami-Aoyama, a fashionable part of Minato Ward, now looks like a ...

Younger lawmakers are increasingly turning to crowdfunding as a way of raising money to finance their political activities. Ryota Kimura, a 30-year-old member of the Hirakata Municipal Assembly in Osaka Prefecture, recently asked for ¥100,000 on an online crowdfunding site to cover some of ...

Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) will in September begin test runs paving the way for the launch of a magnetically levitated train line between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027, marking a milestone in its half-century of efforts to develop an ultrahigh-speed superconducting train ...

NAGANO — A large underground display screen on a mountain in the city of Nagano reflected an abnormal seismic wave with an alarm at 9:54:40 a.m. May 25. Matsushiro Seismological Observatory officials studied the earthquake wave, pinpointed its direction and distance and immediately reported ...